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Title: Power director's room in New York City
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): ConRail (former owner)
Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: 1993231_079
Collection: Conrail photographs and films

Title: NBC master control room
Date(s): 1940
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Cavalcade of America (Radio program) (depicted), Cavalcade of America (Television program) (associated name)
Collection ID: Cavalcade of America photographs (Accession 1985.259)
Hagley ID: AVD_1985259_03_09_02
Collection: Cavalcade of America photographs

Title: NBC studio control room
Date(s): 1940
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Cavalcade of America (Radio program) (depicted), Cavalcade of America (Television program) (associated name)
Collection ID: Cavalcade of America photographs (Accession 1985.259)
Hagley ID: AVD_1985259_03_09_01
Collection: Cavalcade of America photographs

Title: NBC master control board
Date(s): 1940
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Cavalcade of America (Radio program) (depicted), Cavalcade of America (Television program) (associated name)
Collection ID: Cavalcade of America photographs (Accession 1985.259)
Hagley ID: AVD_1985259_03_09_03
Collection: Cavalcade of America photographs

Title: Power room at 30th Street station
Date(s): 1970/1979, 1970, 1979
Contributor(s): ConRail (former owner)
Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: 1993231_001
Collection: Conrail photographs and films

Title: Control room for the solvent recovery stills
Date(s): 1952-09-30
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room for the solvent recovery stills in the Butacite polyvinyl butyral resin plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Arlington, New Jersey. Butacite is sandwiched between sheets of glass in making automotive safety glass.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2390
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant has scores of dials and gauges on huge panel board. The instruments tell the operator what is going on inside the tanks and towers elsewhere in the plant. These devices help prevent waste and improve the quality of the product by allowing better control. A product of the company's fundamental research program, Delrin represents a new concept in thermoplastic engineering materials that bridge the gap between...
Show moreControl room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant has scores of dials and gauges on huge panel board. The instruments tell the operator what is going on inside the tanks and towers elsewhere in the plant. These devices help prevent waste and improve the quality of the product by allowing better control. A product of the company's fundamental research program, Delrin represents a new concept in thermoplastic engineering materials that bridge the gap between metals and plastics.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2397
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control room of the Ammonia Department
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: From a control room 100 feet long at the Belle, West Virginia plant of the DuPont Company's Ammonia Department, operators handle production equipment for the entire nitrile building from a central location. Operator Howard Lowe here checks a gauge on one of the fourteen panels controlling the processes by which adipic acid and ammonia are combined in the making of the nylon intermediate known as adiponitrile.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1228
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Television truck - sketch studio interiors
Date(s): 1945-01-01
Contributor(s): Radio Corporation of America (originator), Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Record Division (associated name), Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division (associated name), Radio-Victor Corporation of America (associated name), Barnum, Frederick 0. (former owner)
Collection ID: Frederick O. Barnum III collection of RCA Victor Company negatives (Accession 1995.220)
Hagley ID: AVD_1995220_122_24
Collection: Frederick O. Barnum III collection of RCA Victor Company negatives

Title: Control room at Sabine River Works in Orange, Texas
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Air conditioned control room of one of the processes for making nylon intermediates at DuPont's Sabine River Works at Orange, Texas. The dials tell operator what is going on inside the tanks and distillation towers elsewhere in the plant. These automatic devices help prevent waste and improve quality of the product by allowing better control.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1233
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control room of sulfuric acid plant
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Sulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been making sulfuric acid for many years. It has large and small sulfuric acid plants in the East, South, and Middle West. This photograph shows operator at a sulfuric acid plant of the Grasselli Chemicals Department checking the instruments in the...
Show moreSulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been making sulfuric acid for many years. It has large and small sulfuric acid plants in the East, South, and Middle West. This photograph shows operator at a sulfuric acid plant of the Grasselli Chemicals Department checking the instruments in the control room of a sulfuric acid unit.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0606
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control room of the Ammonia Department at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: A 100 foot control room at DuPont's Belle Works, near Charleston, West Virginia, enables operators to handle production equipment of nylon intermediate from central location. The product must be processed under speeds, temperatures, pressures and chemical reactions which render human control impractical, if not impossible, for large scale production.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1250
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Control room at Sabine River Works
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Big control room at Sabine River Works, near Orange, Texas from where a DuPont operator, remote from production units, keeps a trained eye on the flow of processes, interfering only when flashing lights or clanging bells signal an emergency.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2584
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Charting operations in control room of sulfuric acid plant
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room in contact sulfuric acid plant at the Grasselli Works of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company in Philadelphia PA. The worker is charting the operations.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0605
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Interior showing control room of the mine planter, Lt. Col. Ellery W. Niles #435
Date(s): 1938
Contributor(s): Pusey & Jones Corporation (originator)
Collection ID: Pusey and Jones Corporation photograph collection (Accession 1972.350)
Hagley ID: 72350_4642
Collection: Pusey and Jones Corporation photographs

Title: Interior showing control room of the mine planter, Lt. Col. Ellery W. Niles #435
Date(s): 1938
Contributor(s): Pusey & Jones Corporation (originator)
Collection ID: Pusey and Jones Corporation photograph collection (Accession 1972.350)
Hagley ID: 72350_4642_9
Collection: Pusey and Jones Corporation photographs

Title: An employee at work in the Philadelphia and southwest region
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): ConRail (former owner)
Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: 1993231_073
Collection: Conrail photographs and films